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glands is entirely concealed, and this indumentum extends 

 typically to the top of the style, a condition very different 

 from the purely red-glandular ovary and style of Rh. 

 irroratnm. In one flower I found the indumentum of 

 the style extending only half-way up it, and the densely 

 bearded character was hardly developed, the flocks and 

 glands being fewer and distant. 



Rh. adenostemonum is an ally, but there we have a more 

 purely glandular type, wanting the very pronounced flocks 

 on the style, having neither glands nor hairs on the out- 

 side of the corolla and showing glands on the staminal 

 filaments. 



The two specimens in the Kew Herbarium — one in flower, 

 one in fruit — are the only ones I know of. 



RJiododendron spanotric/nom, Balf. f. et W. W. Sm.^ 



A small tree reaching about () m. in height. Bi-anches 

 not very thick. Branches a year old as much as 3 mm. in 



^ Rhododendron, spanotrichuin, Balf. f. et W. W. Sui. — Arbor parva ad 

 6 111. alta ramis hand crassis. Raniuli aiiuotiiii ad 3 mm. diam. 

 pallide viridea glabri glandnlanim (an Hoccorum ?) detersarum pedibiis 

 rubris tandem nigricaiiLibns niinnle ])unctulati. Alal)astrorum oblongo- 

 ovoideorum obtnsornm circ. 5 mm. diam. perulae pins minusve viscidae 

 glanduli.s rnbris sessilibns extns praedilae exteriores parvHe semi-hinatae 

 et rotnndatae circ. 3 mm. longae et latae crustaceo-coriaceae brnnneae 

 iritns basi apicetpie adpresso-pubernlae margine minute glandnloso- 

 fimbrialae vel breviter gland uloso-pilcsae interiores oblongo-ovatae vel 

 oblongo-elli])licae obtnwie viscidae. Folia ])etiolata ad IS';') cm. loiiga ; 

 lamina coriacea oblanceolata ad 12 cm. loiiga ad 4 cm. lata apice snbro- 

 Ktratim attenuata vel breviter acnminata mucronnlata margine carti- 

 laginea obscnre nndnlata .subplana cicatricibu.s gland nlarum (an 

 ])ilorum 'i) detei'sarnm snbasperata basi obtusa vel late cnneata saepe 

 inaetpialis snpra pallide vel atro-olivacea saepe brunnescens opaca baud 

 nitens costa media sulcata venis primariis ntrinsecn.s circ. ad 18 incon- 

 spicuesulcatis caeteroquin laevisglaberrima sed glandularum detersarum 

 pedibus vestigial ibns minute rubro-punctnlata subtns lielvola vel rubro- 

 Ijrunnea subnitens costa media venis([ue primariis leviter ernbescentibns 

 conspicue elevatis venulariim reti paullo emiiiente nln(iue i)rimo aspectu 

 glalna sed glandularum detersarum pedibus vestigialibus rubro-j^unctn- 

 lata ; petiolus ad 1'5 cm. longus crassns suj)ra sulcatus eruliescens glab- 

 rescen.s ut lamina rubro-punctulatus. Flores racemoso-uinbellati circ. 

 10 in quaque inflore.scentia rliaclii circ. TScm. longa glabra ; bracteaeex- 

 timaesterilesovatae vel subrotundatae crasso-coriaceae margine tenniores 

 extus ])ul)e.sceiites vel sultsericeae et sparsissiinc apicem versus ruljro- 

 glandidosae fertiles obovato-s])atliulatae apice truiicatae vel rotnndatae 

 inucronatae ad 2'0 cm. longae ad 1"G cm. latae extus dense et grosse 

 adpresso-jjilosae ; l)racteoiae filifornies rubiginosae circ. \b cm. longae 

 pedicellis midto longiores sericeo-pilosae ; pedicelli circ. 7 mm. longi 

 crassi pilis floccosis sebaceis rulis j)liis minusve praediti. Calyx minutu* 



